14. Power on the chassis by pressing the power button at the front. It takes approximately five minutes and 30
seconds for the node to boot.
15. Perform the configuration steps.
Find more information
•
NetApp SolidFire Resources Page
•
Documentation for earlier versions of NetApp SolidFire and Element products
Replace drives
If a drive is faulty or if the drive wear level falls below a threshold, you should replace it.
Alarms in the Element software UI notify you when a drive has failed or is going to fail.
You can hot-swap a failed drive.
About this task
This procedure is for replacing drives in H410S and H610S storage nodes. Removing a drive takes the drive
offline. Any data on the drive is removed and migrated to other drives in the cluster. The data migration to other
active drives in the system can take a few minutes to an hour depending on capacity utilization and active I/O
on the cluster. You should follow these best practices for handling drives while removing and replacing them:
• Keep the drive in the ESD bag until you are ready to install it.
• Open the ESD bag by hand or cut the top off with a pair of scissors.
• Always wear an ESD wrist strap grounded to an unpainted surface on your chassis.
• Always use both hands when removing, installing, or carrying a drive.
• Never force a drive into the chassis.
• Always use approved packaging when shipping drives.
• Do not stack drives on top of each other.
Best practices for adding and removing drives
• Add all the block drives and ensure that block syncing is complete before you add the slice drives.
• For Element software 10.x and later, add all the block drives at once. Ensure that you do not do this for
more than three nodes at once.
• For Element software 9.x and earlier, add three drives at once allowing them to completely sync before
adding the next group of three.
• Remove the slice drive and ensure that slice syncing is complete before removing the block drives.
• Remove all the block drives from a single node at once. Ensure that all block syncing is complete before
you move on to the next node.
Steps
1. Remove the drive from the cluster using the NetApp Element software UI:
a. From the Element UI, Select
Cluster > Drives
.
b. Select
Failed
to view the list of failed drives.
c. Make a note of the slot number of the failed drive. You need this information to locate the failed drive in
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